Rene Cassin

Rene Cassin (5 October 1887-20 February 1976) was a French politician who was best remembered as the principal author of the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Biography
Rene Cassin was born in Bayonne, France on 5 October 1887, the son of a French-Jewish merchant. He became a professor of law in Lille in 1920 and then in Paris in 1929, later serving as a French delegate to the League of Nations from 1924 to 1938. He joined Charles de Gaulle and became a prominent member of the Free French, serving as a member of the Council of State from 1944 to 1960, but he was best remembered as the principal author of the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. He became a member of the European Court of Human Rights in 1959 and was its president from 1965 to 1968, and he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. He died in 1976.